We need to get one thing straight. It isn't the "coronavirus epidemic" that is causing the damage to people's mental health, but the measures that were introduced by governments across the globe in order to (allegedly) deal with the epidemic. Locking people in their homes and calling them (appropriately, in my view, since the term originated in the prison system) 'lockdowns', forcing small businesses to close (but strangely enough, not large ones), forbidding travel for all except politicians and celebrities, hyping the lethality of the virus, and introducing a virtual police state (in my state anyway, Victoria), are some of the things we should blame for the astronomical increase in suicides.
When all of this is over (assuming of course it ever will be), you can bet everything you have they will have a handy replacement scare-story with which to frighten people senseless. It might be 'global warming' again, perhaps a meteor will be spotted heading for Earth, or maybe it will be a fake 'alien invasion' of some kind. My own guess is that it will be the discovery that we are all just living in a 'simulation' of some sort, and that will throw everyone into a permanent existential crisis. Regardless of what the story will be, you can be sure it will be - once again - complete bullshit.
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To a great extent for some people but I always liked staying at home so yeah I am kinda used to not stepping out
Yes, and in several ways.
There is the "rule of threes" in healthcare, which, while not a RULE in the traditional sense, it IS a decent working guideline.
3 minutes without oxygen
3 days without water
3 weeks without food
3 months without touch
Well, we are long past those three months. We know of several people who have died (from a variety of reasons, not just COVID) but were quarantined and could see NO ONE. It's sad to think of someone dying with NO ONE- not even a SPOUSE- to be there for them.
We have an elderly lady friend of ours whose "love language" is physical touch: she's a hugger! Well, she is at wit's end hardly being able to even touch someone, yet alone HUG them for over a year!
My wife is a counselor. She was going to retire this year. Not happening! She's having more new couples as clients recently, most of whom who have money problems, and singles who have employment problems. Regardless, it takes a heavy mental tol on everyone.
I don't see how it couldn't be. It has been evident since the panic buying.
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My mental health has improved in the past year or so but it’s because I’ve worked hard to improve it by meditating on the bible and training myself in areas I thought I was flawed in and allowing myself to experience past trauma so that it can be brought to the surface and healed. I also read over 52 books on positive psychology and watched videos and engaged in religious activity as well as participating in group activities through zoom and working on my book projects so that I can be a professional author and engaging in brain training exercises to boost my intelligence as well as doing brain resting relaxation exercises and collecting quotes.
For me it has not. Mostly because 2019 was a insane year in itself and I spent a lot of 2020 fixing the damage 2010 did. So the pandemic has more or less only added more weight to my back when I was already fighting upstream. Also a crisis isn't anything new in my life. So I learned how to cope with one many years ago and work through one as well.
Lastly one of the best things people can do is keep their distance mentally from the coverage of it. You don't need to be reading every article that comes out about it. Or watching new coverage of it a large chunk of your time. Talking a lot about it with others can create issues as well. Because it can quickly start becoming one of the few things, if not only the one thing you are thinking.I would say for a lot of people, yes, significantly.
It's actually improved mine though, not just because of the stimulis checks, but also because people are now acting more like me.
Better hygeine, social distancing to avoid infection, playing online video games at home instead of going out to socialize, etc.
Only thing negative on my end is stock of products dissapearing too fast because people are stupid.
Thats not to say the outbreak isn't negative, it definitely is, I was just lucky enough to not have lost anyone I know, and not have my income impacted.Yes. Isolation, and what comes with it (loneliness and boredom), are the worst thing for the human mind. Even in public, seeing people in masks fosters a feeling of isolation, like you're trapped in your own sphere. So yes, it is, and I think when this is all said and done this pandemic will be the catalyst to the birth of a very hedonistic and wild 2020s, a new roaring 20s if you will, to offset the awful time had in quarantine.
I guess it depends on who you are. Personally I wouldn’t let something like this affect my mental health. When we were in lock down I found ways to be productive and keep my mind afloat. You are the only person that affects how your personal mind works
It has for a lot of people, there have actually been a large amount of suicides over the last year due to lock down and many indirect coronavirus related deaths. That is all mental health related.
As for me, my mental health got far better... not having to drive into work each day did me wonders.
Now that they are talking about having us go back in, my mental health is going down.Nope.
What is affecting it is the stupid protestors and the housing market going ape shit.
Wearing a mask for me is no big deal. It's like wearing glasses on putting on shoes.
And social distancing to me is no big deal. In fact I like the idea of less people crowding around.it absolutely is. and i am going to claim, that the forced social changes and coercion through political regulation aimed at reducing the impact of the virus on the population have actually directly and indirectly harmed and even killed WAY more people than the virus itself.
Oh absolutely. I believe we are going to be seeing studies on this for years to come, but I've already been seeing articles about increased anxiety and depression, as well as more medication to manage those mental health issues being prescribed.
A little bit. It has become better, but I still lack motivation and feel tired all the time. I also eat way worse than I used to and I think it's related to mental health. I'm not depressed or anything, but feeling a bit meh.
The thing people seem to forget is that we are all interconnected so if one is suffering we are all suffering. But it's complex and we are in our own hell in some way or another just in different ways some are better off than others.
Lockdown situations have no effect on my mental health.
This situation affects only and only certain types of people. They are unable to manage their own problems and therefore throw them up on others. Failing this, they have to manage their problems on their own. These people had huge problems previously that they didn't want to solve and annoyed others.Staying inside for most of a year does have an effect. I know this because I have been homeschooled for 3-4 years. The fact that I graduated is cool n all but I feel a lot of opportunities were missed because I was no longer in public brick-&-motar school.
Watched a family pick up there dead husky puppy off the road after it got hit with a Ford Raptor. Felt fucking nothing and offered the parents a contractor bag and a Shovel. I feel nothing most of the time and when I do feel anything I just feel hatred. I just want to feel something other than contempt and loathing. If someone does kill me, Hope they feel good about it.
Yep. I wasn't the most mentally healthy person to begin with. I'm not totally sure why. I could be that I don't have any self worth. Or that I have issues relating to people. Or that I've stopped trying to be happy.
But being alone with all of that makes it worse.
If you didn't have a whole lots of good in your mind going in its tough to find any.
at least that's how it is for me.Definitely, I have NEVER seen as many incidents of 'mass casualty' lone gunman shootings, and murder / suicides / suicide-by-cop as are occurring with the mentally-unbalanced since Spring of 2020. ~ :(
I certainly think a lot of people milk the hell out of it for attention. Which in turn makes it less credible and or believable that those who genuinely are having issues with it are not doing the same. But I do believe that it has drawn out a lot of depression and loneliness in extroverts or busy bodies.
Yes it probably does, I feel like people get way more egoistic the longer it gets and there seem to be not many people around who are optimistic or could be seen as such by looking on their behavior.
I think it very well could be... I think it's making us more depressed and antisocial
Damn it is
Itamy 27th day since infected.
Not just mental more of physical.
I am weak, i feel Dumb and numb, lost concentration,. I really dont know what I want anymore its stupid.
I am an It guy and have Business, but looks like I dont know it anymore.:(
I dont know what they fuck this covid injected and upto what extent and which organ.
No doctor know it at all
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